On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:46:56 +0100 Andrey Utkin <andrey_ut...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Right, I am not aware why PMS has left this explicitly undefined.
Because when we wrote the spec, Portage's actual behaviour on empty directories was extremely tricky to define and depended upon things like whether you were upgrading or reinstalling a package. -- Ciaran McCreesh
